Hospitals don’t behave like typical buildings, and their façades shouldn’t be engineered like them either. In commercial towers, performance issues are frustrating. In healthcare facilities, they become operational risks....

Structural glass is one of those architectural elements that looks effortless from the outside — clear, elegant, weightless. But the moment it stops being an idea and becomes a...

In drawings, cladding systems look simple — a clean panel grid, crisp joints, sharp edges, tight alignment. But once the system leaves the page and meets tolerances, structure, movement,...

In architecture, the words façade design and façade engineering are often used interchangeably — but they shouldn’t be. A façade can look right on paper and fail in the...